To facilitate scalability, Monero recently added blockchain pruning to its daemon software. This feature allows users to optionally "prune" about 2/3 of the blockchain data, while still contributing to the network. There are several other efficiency upgrades in the upcoming 0.13 release.

To facilitate scalability, Monero recently added blockchain pruning to its daemon software. This feature allows users to optionally "prune" about 2/3 of the blockchain data, while still contributing to the network. There are several other efficiency upgrades in the upcoming 0.14 release.